Longtown Store & Breeding Sheep Sale Report

C&D Auction Marts Ltd had forward 703 store hoggs, cast ewes and rams at their weekly sale at Longtown on Tuesday 13th April 2021. Another excellent show of hoggs for the time of the year, trade again brilliant for all classes.

Top £139 for Suffolks from Halldykes; Texels to £120 Flatt (Atkinson), £117 Halldykes; Hill Cheviots to £135, £127 Bloch, £115, £111 Blackhaugh; Charollais to £113, £111 Moss Side (Baxter); Cheviot Mules to £110 Flatt (Atkinson); Romneys to £115 Halldykes; Aberfields to £109 Burnfoot of Ewes; Greyfaces to £117 New Dorryfield, £95 Riggshields; Blackfaces to £91, £85 Fell of Lochronald; Swaledales to £83 Cumcatch.

Feeding ewes (169) a larger show and dearer. Top £129 for Greyfaces from Windy Hill (Weatherley) who also sold Texels to £126, £123 and Suffolks to £119. Hill ewes to £95 for Cheviots from Burnfoot of Ewes, £91 Blackhall; Blackfaces to £81 Blakehopeburnhaugh. Cast rams to £178 for a Suffolk from Blackhaugh, Hill Cheviots to £126 Blackhaugh, £117 Blackhall; Swaledales to £71 Ottercops.

BREEDING SHEEP

C&D Auction Marts had a much larger show of ewes and lambs forward which sold to an increased ringside of eager purchasers. All classes selling to animated rates to a top of £116 a life for Texel x ewes with single lambs from A Ewart & Son, Kirkhill, who sold others to £104. Many more are required to satisfy purchaser demand.

Ewes with single lamb

Texel £116, £104 Kirkhill, £86, £84, £82 High Acres, £78 Shaw Head.

Mule £70 Bayles.

Ewes with twin lambs

Suffolk £84 Stockholm, £81 Shaw Head.

Texel £75 Shaw Head.

Mule £69 Brownrigg.

Shearlings with single lamb

Texel £108, £92, £86 Stockholm, £90 Brownrigg.

Suffolk £76 Brownrigg.

Shearlings with twin lambs

Texel £76 Brownrigg.